President Trump on Monday claimed his administration has achieved “tremendous success” at a “record-setting pace” despite Democrats being “obstructionists,” accusing the other party of only caring about the midterm elections.
“If we have the greatest bill in the history of the world on healthcare, we wouldn’t get one vote from the Democrats, because they are obstructionists,” Trump said during his first full Cabinet meeting at the White House. “That’s what they want to do. That’s the game. They think that’s their political game. They’re looking to ’18.”
Trump has not seen healthcare, tax reform or infrastructure legislation passed, but he argued his young administration has seen success.
“When I ran, it was ‘Make America Great Again,’ and that’s what we’re doing. Believe me,” the president said. “We’re doing it and we’re doing it at a much faster pace than anyone thought.”
Trump argued that “never has there been a president, with few exceptions — in the case of FDR, he had a major depression that happened — whose passed more legislation, whose done more things, than we’ve done.”
Trump cited the executive orders he has signed, the “job-killing regulations that have been terminated,” the 34 bills that Congress has signed and his appointment of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
“I think we’ve been about as active as you can possibly be and at just about a record-setting pace,” he said in the Cabinet Room.
Trump spoke of the battle against ISIS and said “we’re going to be having a news conference in two weeks on that fight, and you will see numbers that you would not have believed.”
He said Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta will be making a “major announcement” this week about “expanding apprenticeships and getting our people back to work.”
The president also said there would be “major legislation very soon on the dumping of steel” and “the dumping of aluminum and various other things into our country, which is killing our workers.”
